My busy weekend started on Friday. After school, I went down to the shop and worked on my secretary. Earlier this week I had finished stripping the paint off and was on to washing it. First, you put on a light coat of stripper, let it set and then scrub it off. Any places were there is still paint, you scrap until the paint is all gone. Once all the paint is off, you wash it off with lacquer thinner and then wipe it dry. I got about half of the cabinet done, so I am quite happy with the way it is turning out. After that, I had a physical therapy appointment. And then after that, I went to my friend Ruth's house to help her prepare an Irish meal for her youth group. I got to her house about 3:30 and was cooking until 6:30. The food was delicious, if I do say so myself! Then we sang all the Irish songs that we could find in the hymn book, plus some others. We had dessert (Irish brownies and mint chip ice cream!), did some more singing and then it was time to go home. Ruth's sister took me to her house, which was closer for my mom to pick me up. But my mom heard the address wrong and spent 20 minutes driving around until she found the right place. I was sure I gave her the right address, but she found me, so that's good.
On Saturday, I had to babysit(at 6:20 a.m.) Then, when I got home, I went outside to help my dad. We were moving junk so that we could cut down our cedar trees. They cause cedar apple rust, so they have to go. Once we had the junk moved, we went and had lunch. Then it was time to cut down some trees! Rachel, Jonathan, and I got cameras so that we would have photographic evidence. We have 9 cedar trees, but we only cut down 5 to start. Dad did the cutting, and Grandpa had the tractor to help the trees fall in the right direction. After that, Rachel and I started cleaning the barn. We got the rabbit/horse side done, but still have to finish the 2 storage rooms.
Starting to fall
Really falling!
A stump
Another stump
On Sunday, after church, Dad wanted to get some of the branches cut off the trunk, in case it rained on Monday, so we could burn them. We are planning to burn the branches and are going to use the ash on our garden. First, Rachel, Jonathan and I loaded apple branches onto the trailer while Dad cut them up. After two loads of apple branches, we moved to cedar branches. We started by just dragging the branches to the pile, but since we still had the trailer, we decided that hauling them in that would be much easier! We hauled branches for 3 hours and then we were done!
There you go, my busy weekend. Enjoy reading! I have some other things to post about soon, so be watching for those!
'becca
1 comment:
pretty pictures!
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